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Ddasaccident065, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident065, Hd-Aid
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At around 11:10 the victim got a detector reading and began "prodding and excavating the ground using a bayonet" held in his left hand. A PPM-2 mine detonated. The victim was knocked backward "about" two metres by the blast and was lying partly in an uncleared area. He stood up quickly, leaving his visor which had been "blown away and broken by the blast". The victim received first aid and arrived at the field hospital at 11:20.
Ddasaccident081, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident081, Hd-Aid
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The victim prodded onto a mine at 07:55. There was a 45cm gap between the accident site and the "recognised face of clearance", indicating that the victim was prodding ahead of his end of lane marker. It was difficult to determine whether the victim had prodded the ground up to the site of the explosion
Ddasaccident066, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident066, Hd-Aid
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Prior to the accident a two-man team including Victim No.3 were clearing a one metre wide lane. They were wearing frag-jackets, helmets and visors. The Team supervisor (a Uruguayan National) was not wearing protective clothing. He became Victim No.1. Another ex-pat supervisor (Pakistani National) on site was wearing a helmet and visor. He became Victim No.2. The deminers could see a partly exposed PMN about two metres in front of the end-of-lane marker stick.
Ddasaccident325, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident325, Hd-Aid
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Despite the absence of a paramedic, [the Victim] who has the position of Team Leader in the organisation, decided to commence work the morning of 24th May 1996 on the security strip. At this stage the security strip had a large number of PMN-2 anti-personnel mines exposed by the machines and was very dangerous. He entered the security strip at approximately 12:00 and approximately 30 minutes later a muffled explosion was heard inside the strip.
Ddasaccident032, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident032, Hd-Aid
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Victim No.1 was working downhill without his detector and was two metres in front of the end of his end-of-lane marker when the accident occurred at 10:55. He pulled a tripwire and initiated an OZM-4 that was a metre away. He suffered traumatic amputation of his left food. Two other deminers were slightly injured with single fragments to the elbow and chin. The Platoon Commander ordered a helicopter from Maputo. The platoon paramedic gave first aid. amputation of his left foot.
Ddasaccident068, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident068, Hd-Aid
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At 10:05 the victim located a PPM-2 at the head of his lane. He called the Team Leader who marked the mine to be destroyed it at the end of the day. The victim and his partner then moved to another lane. When they changed roles (resting/demining) just before 10:30, the victim went back to the lane where he had found the mine. His partner saw that he had taken off his visor and shouted a warning to him. The victim ignored him and started probing a metre from the uncovered mine in the belief that a second mine had …
Ddasaccident067, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident067, Hd-Aid
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In an "Accident report" supplied by the commercial demining company on 13th January 1999 the accident was described as having occurred on a narrow section of bridge that was left spanning the River "Lui" (the main part of the bridge was destroyed). The demining company had been contracted to clear the road and did not have responsibility for clearing the bridge. The narrow section was used to gain access to the far side of the bridge and continue working along the road. The demining team crossed it in order to work. When they returned the victim (who was a medic) …
Ddasaccident177, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident177, Hd-Aid
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The Medical report recorded the time of the accident as 18:00, which is long after work stops for the day. From this it is inferred that the victim stepped on a mine in an area believed safe. That area may or may not have been previously cleared.
Ddasaccident178, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident178, Hd-Aid
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At approximately 09:00 the victim detonated a PMN while investigating a detector signal with his prodder. He sustained a traumatic amputation of his left thumb and forefinger, grazing to his left upper arm and to the lower half of his face, and "a slight laceration to the cornea of his left eye" that caused 50% blindness in this eye. He was also bleeding from both ears. The victim was wearing body armour and a visor.
Ddasaccident069, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident069, Hd-Aid
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In a copy of a FAX dated 6th March 1996 to another company (presumed to have been the victims' direct employers) the accident is recorded as "two members of our North Team were seriously injured in a landmine detonation while they were demining the bridge site over the river Lui". It goes on "both men are in a serious but fortunately stable condition. One man has regrettably lost the use of his eyes whilst the prognosis for the other man is slightly better".
Ddasaccident179, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident179, Hd-Aid
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The primary cause of this accident is listed as a "Field control inadequacy" because the victims were close together when the device initiated which indicates a breach of safety distance SOPs that went uncorrected.
Ddasaccident180, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident180, Hd-Aid
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The demining team uncovered three Type 72a mines and called the supervisor to deal with them. The victim was walking over a cleared area at 10:30 when he detonated another Type 72a mine. He received injuries described in the field as "light". He was taken to Mong Kol Borey hospital arriving at 11.20.
Ddasaccident181, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident181, Hd-Aid
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In the absence of any detail about how the accident occurred, the primary cause of this accident is listed as "Inadequate equipment" because the only identifiable failing is that the group did not provide the victim with effective eye protection (whether it was worn or not is not known).
Ddasaccident033, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident033, Hd-Aid
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The demining platoon had "cleared 5,1602 metres and eight mines at Homoine before the accident". The mines were laid in a narrow belt but not in a pattern. The mines found before were PMN, PMN-2, PMD6 and POMZ2M. The victim was in a crouching position with his arm outstretched (holding a trowel) when he initiated a PMN with his right foot. He was not using his detector (which was 12 metres away). He was taken to hospital at 09:35 and arrived at 10:05. A blood shortage meant that other deminers had to donate three litres of blood.
Ddasaccident071, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident071, Hd-Aid
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A senior official with the demining group reported in informal discussions during December 1998 that an accident had occurred at Luchimba (spelt phonetically) Bridge in Malanje in 1995. In this accident an expatriate Technical Advisor was using a Schiebel detector in an uncleared area and detonated a Type 72 blast mine. It did not have a booster charge so he only initiated the percussion cap and escaped unhurt. He left Angola soon afterwards.
Ddasaccident031, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident031, Hd-Aid
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A director of the demining group was interviewed about this accident on 15th December 1998. From memory he reported that the victim was the Team Leader and had just made a radio report. He was returning to the working area and for some unexplained reason took a short-cut across a corner, stepping into an uncleared area. He trod on a Gyata-64 and lost his lower leg.
Ddasaccident182, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident182, Hd-Aid
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The victim was a Team Leader and had noticed that a length of marking tape was broken. He put in a new post and was trying to connect up the tape when he slipped and fell over at approximately 10:30. His body landed in the cleared area but his left foot initiated a PMN-2 mine 36cm into the uncleared area.
Ddasaccident035, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident035, Hd-Aid
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On October 10th at 05:30 the victim initiated the mine in his tent within the camping area, seriously injuring his right arm, left leg and "breast". Nobody else was injured. First aid was given by the medical co-ordinator and two paramedics.
Ddasaccident183, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident183, Hd-Aid
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At 12:45 he initiated a mine with his detector, causing him to stagger backwards and collapse about 4 metres behind. After first aid the victim left by ambulance, arriving at Battambang Provincial Hospital at 13:30. The victim was not wearing his safety spectacles, which were found in his hand (he claimed that he was about to put them on). The detector was "completely destroyed".
Ddasaccident036, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident036, Hd-Aid
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At 09:25 the victim was clearing a lane using a combination of detector and excavation (with a "digging trowel"). While in a kneeling position he reached out to dig at the edge of the lane and initiated a PMN. He suffered traumatic amputation of his right arm "at the elbow" and lacerations to his face, right leg, and left arm. He walked to a safe lane where paramedics gave first aid. He was then driven to Sabie and taken by air to Maputo Central Hospital, leaving at 10:17 and arriving at 11:02.
Ddasaccident038, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident038, Hd-Aid
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Work began on 18th May 1995 and one side was cleared that day, with a POMZ-2 located and destroyed. On 19th May 1995 the section started clearing the other side. At about 10:00 a mine exploded in a cleared lane about two minutes after a deminer walked there. No injuries occurred. Work continued and a further three mines were found using detectors. On completion the victim went to destroy the mines.
Ddasaccident039, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident039, Hd-Aid
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At 09:15 Victim No.1 was injured by stepping on a mine "in a recently cleared area while engaged in clearance duties….". Victim No.2 was also injured. "Both men were wearing protective clothing – cotton overalls, leather boots and protective eye glasses" [sic]. The men were treated on site and evacuated at 11:24 by air to Maputo airport. (The requested plane landed in the wrong place and lost radio contact: a second plane had to be sent.)
Ddasaccident185, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident185, Hd-Aid
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The victim was investigating the source of a detector reading in an area where the ground had a high level of natural soil contamination. The victim was reported to have been lying down to work. He used his prodder, but because the ground was very hard he also used a trowel to break up the surface. At 11:27 he initiated a Type 72A mine. After first aid the victim was taken by ambulance to Battambang Provincial Hospital, arriving at 12:40.
Ddasaccident040, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident040, Hd-Aid
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On the day of the accident the demining group's ex-pat country Manager went in to investigate the accident of the previous day (7th March 1995) and confirmed that the mine involved had been a PMN. He found parts of the device that he thought indicated that there had been two mines, but those parts were lost during subsequent events. When he went into the area a second time he spent ten minutes examining the area, then called out for people to gather together for a briefing. Immediately thereafter he was seriously injured by an explosion [no reason why he went …
Ddasaccident013, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident013, Hd-Aid
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The victim was a detector man for his platoon and was working in his lane when at 10:57 the site manager blew a whistle to signal the beginning of a break period. The victim stood up and uncleared area and detonated a PMN-2 with "his head". He was blown back into the cleared lane and died instantly. turned to return to the rest area but suddenly fell. He landed with most of his body in an
Ddasaccident003, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident003, Hd-Aid
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At approximately 11:20 the victim discovered a mine. This was his third that day and the first day that he had found any at that site. Instead of informing his Section Leader as he was required to do, he investigated it on his own. "For some reason the mine (or perhaps mines) detonated leaving him very seriously injured". [See Medical report.]The victim was casevaced by helicopter to Quelimane hospital arriving one hour after the accident occurred. He died at 16:30 that day. The death certificate gave "haemorrhage" as the cause of death. The helicopter was deemed fortuitous, and some suggestions …
Ddasaccident187, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident187, Hd-Aid
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The victim was working as a detector man and at 10:25 he changed roles within the team. Instead of returning to the rest area he walked along the adjacent cleared lane and tried to move a branch lying in an uncleared part of the road to the side of the lane. There was a stone about 50cm from the lane and, judging that there would be no mine underneath, he stepped on it to reach the branch. On his return journey his foot slipped off the stone and detonated a Type 72 mine. He suffered a traumatic amputation of the …
Ddasaccident188, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident188, Hd-Aid
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At 08:20 the victim located a mine and bent down to place a marker. At that point he had a dizzy spell and fell towards the mine, initiating it with the side of his head. He suffered serious injuries to his head and eyes and a broken arm (photographs elsewhere in the file also showed small bandages applied to his abdomen and right knee).
Ddasaccident189, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident189, Hd-Aid
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The Section Commander was doing the prodding himself because he considered the work dangerous and wanted to be sure it was done properly. He was working in a kneeling position and not wearing safety spectacles. He did not use water to soften the ground despite the fact that it was very hard. "The explosion occurred when the Section Commander was prodding a mine 50cm outside the safe lane, his prodding tool slipped from the grassroots and landed on a Type 72 mine". He was said to have sustained temporary vision loss.
Ddasaccident041, Hd-Aid
Ddasaccident041, Hd-Aid
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The Deputy Country Director was interviewed by the researcher on 18th November 1998 and later send a one page summary of the accident and two others (dated 01/11/95). He said that the victim had initiated a PMN mine at approximately 12:45 whilst prodding with his three-pronged fork. At the time an internal investigation [not made available] concluded that he had not used his detector in that area prior to the accident, which was against instructions from his supervisors. “If he had been using the detector the accident would probably have been avoided.”